Improvement in pumps



W4. M. BBUK.

Pumps. No.-I52.,594. Patentedjunesonsm W25 -QM UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

WILLIAM M. BROOKE, OE UNION POINT, GEORGIA.

|MPRovl-:MENT IN PUMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,594, dated June 30,1874; application filed July 16, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. BROOKE, of the town of Union Point,Greene county, State of Georgia, have invented certain Improvements inthe Handles of Hand-Pumps, by which the interior arrangements of thepump (such as plungers and Valves) are perfectly protected against theattempts of malicious persons or mischievous children dropping stones,old irons, chips, or anything into the pumps which will impede ordestroy the workings of said pumps by means of the an gular S outlet orspout, and by use of a segmentshaped arc on the upper or top of thepumphandle, perfectly lling the whole slot in which the handle works,and by means of a hingejoint on which the handle works, secured to thepump-stock and handle, perfectly closing any opening into the pumpwithout removing top of same, or by forcing an opening, and in anarrangement by which the pump-lever is prevented from rising so high asto be out of reaoh after being used, and the plunger a1- lowed to sinkin the pump-barrel only to a given point.

Figure l is a perspective View of the pump. P, the pump; S, the spout oroutlet; A, the handle; o, the hinge on which the handle works; B, thesegment-arc on the handle, which lills or closes the slot in which thehandle works. b is the shoulder, forming the lower boundary of the slotthrough which plays the segment B and inner end ot' the lever; C, thetop of pump. A

Fig. 2 is a section of the pump. S is spout; P, pump; (l, top; O, hingefor handle; a, handle; B, segment-arc, keeping slot closed at all times;B, a section of valve or plunger rod.

I claim- The lever A, hinged as shown at o, and projecting inward overthe square shoulder b, in combination with the segment B, as and for thepurpose set forth.

hitiiesses: WM. M. BROOKE.

GHAs. WELLINGTON, W. J. GoODRIoI-I.

